Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the antipsychotics affect different patients in different ways, doctors can never be sure just how effective a particular agent or dosage will be; they simply prescribe by trial and error. The medication may not work at all or, if the dose is too high, it may produce annoying, even dangerous, side effects...
...negotiations. Also, my 6½ years in the Defense Department were a real help. Picking up the technical aspects of SALT was not as difficult as if I'd had to start from scratch. Finally, as a trial lawyer, I've been trained to absorb a heavy dose of facts and retain them under considerable pressure...
...whiff of periplanone B from a female acts as an aphrodisiac for male American roaches, prompting them to mate. If the males are overwhelmed by a massive man-made dose, however, they may become too confused to find mates, and thus will fail to procreate...
...emotional center of gravity. At the same time, with his immense personal popularity, he continues to challenge the President, keeping him off balance. Carter may find that he gets increasingly tired of Kennedy's sniping and that in spite of his instinct for restraint, a little dose of retaliation may jostle the Senator off his back...
...plutonium a year. One pound, distributed evenly through the atmosphere, is enough to give every person on earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...